English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Ti(berius) Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, high priest (i.e. pontifex maximus), holding tribunician power for the thirteenth time, acclaimed imperator twenty-seven times, father of the country, censor, consul for the fifth time, by the action of L(oukios) Akilios Strabon (i.e. Lucius Acilius Strabo), his personal envoy, also arbitrator of the Cyrenaican province, [he restored to the Roman People the boundaries (i.e. of the estates) which had been occupied by private persons].

French translation

Translation source:

Tiberius Claudius César Auguste Germanicus, grand pontife, détenteur de la puissance tribunicienne pour la 13e fois, salué imperator pour la 27e fois, père de la patrie, censeur, 5 fois consul, par l'intermédiaire de L(ucius) Ac[ili]us Strabon, son légat personnel, disceptator pour la province de Cyrénaïque . . .

Commentary

It is likely, although not quite certain, that the left hand corner fragment may be the fragment from Kwemet, now in the Museum at Beida, mentioned by Mohamed and Reynolds (art.cit.)

Line 10: For Acilius Strabo see PIR² A 0082, and addenda; he was active in Cyrenaica under Claudius and Nero: A.25, A.50, A.68, C.434, C.748, M.125, M.141, M.143, M.153, M.172, M.238, M.251, M.275, and perhaps M.68.

Line 12: μεταξυμεσίτης is apparently the translation of disceptator, an arbitrator; this is the term used to describe Strabo's mission by Tacitus, Annals 14.18: Acilium Strabonem, praetoria potestate usum et missum disceptatorem a Claudio agrorum, quos regis Apionis quondam avitos et populo Romano cum regno relictos proximus quisque possessor invaserant, diutinaque licentia et iniuria quasi iure et aequo nitebantur (available at Perseus)

Lines 13, 14: for the restoration cf eg M.172

Images

None available (2020).